1972 IN LITERATURE

The year '1972 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Events

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New books

★ Richard Adams - ''Watership Down''

★ Jorge Amado - ''Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra'' (''Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars'')

★ Isaac Asimov - ''The Gods Themselves''

★ Richard Bach - ''Jonathan Livingston Seagull''

★ Italo Calvino - ''Invisible Cities

★ Taylor Caldwell - ''Captains and the Kings''

★ Roald Dahl - ''Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator''

★ Robertson Davies - ''The Manticore''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''Scribblings''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors - ''3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction''

★ R. F. Delderfield - ''To Serve Them All My Days''

★ Frederick Forsyth - ''The Odessa File''

★ James Herriot - ''All Creatures Great and Small''

★ Georgette Heyer - ''Lady of Quality''

★ George V. Higgins - ''The Friends of Eddie Coyle''

★ P. D. James - ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman''

★ Dan Jenkins - ''Semi-Tough''

★ Oe Kenzaburo - ''The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away''

★ Carl Jacobi - ''Disclosures in Scarlet''

★ Ira Levin - ''The Stepford Wives''

★ Frank Belknap Long - ''The Rim of the Unknown''

★ Robert Ludlum - ''The Osterman Weekend''

★ David McCullough - ''The Great Bridge''

★ Barry N. Malzberg - ''Beyond Apollo''

★ Chaim Potok - ''My Name is Asher Lev''

★ Mary Renault - ''The Persian Boy''

★ Alexander Solzhenitsyn - ''August 1914''

★ Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - ''Roadside Picnic''

★ Hunter S. Thompson - ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas''

★ Irving Wallace - ''The Word''

New drama

★ Alan Ayckbourn - ''Absurd Person Singular''

Poetry

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''Phantoms and Fancies''

Non-fiction

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''Great Cities of the Ancient World''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp - ''Darwin and His Great Discovery''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and George H. Scithers, editors - ''The Conan Grimoire''

★ John Howard Yoder - ''The Politics of Jesus''

Births

★ September 6 - China Miéville, novelist

Deaths

★ February 15 - Edgar Snow, journalist

★ March 9 - Violet Trefusis, English writer and lover of Vita Sackville-West

★ April - Laurence Manning, science fiction author

★ May 22 - Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate

★ June 24 - R. F. Delderfield, novelist and historian

★ August 22 - Ernestine Hill, travel writer

★ September 21 - Henry de Montherlant, essayist

★ September 27 - S. R. Ranganathan, influential librarian

★ December 10 - Mark Van Doren, poet

★ December 13 - L. P. Hartley, novelist

★ December 23 - Abraham Joshua Heschel, theologian

★ ''date unknown'' - Richard Church, poet and novelist

Awards

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for the Novel, Eudora Welty

★ Booker Prize: John Berger, ''G.''

★ Cholmondeley Award: Molly Holden, Tom Raworth, Patricia Whittaker

★ See 1972 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

★ Carnegie Medal: Richard Adams, ''Watership Down''

★ Eric Gregory Award: Tony Curtis, Richard Burns, Brian Oxley, Andrew Greig, Robin Lee, Paul Muldoon

★ Hugo Award: Philip José Farmer, ''To Your Scattered Bodies Go''

★ Nebula Award: Isaac Asimov, ''The Gods Themselves''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Robert C. O'Brien, ''Mrs. Frisbee and the Rats of NIMH''

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Heinrich Böll

★ Premio Nadal: José María Carrascal, ''Grrovy''

★ Prix Goncourt: Jean Carrière, ''L'Epervier de Maheux''

★ Prix Médicis: Maurice Clavel, ''Le Tiers des étoiles''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Drama: ''no award given''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Wallace Stegner - ''Angle of Repose''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, ''Collected Poems''

★ Viareggio Prize: Romano Bilenchi, ''Il bottone di Stalingrado''